Adjustable shoulder pad for garments



April 4, 1950 BRlEF ADJUSTABLE SHOULDER PAD FOR GARMENTS Filed Feb. 7, 1947 Patented Apr. 4, 1950 1"1'11.

ADJUSTABLE SHOULDER PAD FOR GARMENTS Max Brief, San Francisco, Calif.

Application February 7, 1947, Serial No. 727,021

My invention relates to garments or clothing and more particularly to an adjustable shoulder pad for garments, especially mens coats, and the like.

The purpose of the invention is to provide simple and novel means for lifting a shoulder portion of a coat or similar garment to enable a tailor to properly fit said portion of the garment to a person, one of whose shoulders may be higher than the other.

The adjustable shoulder pad of the present invention includes an adjusting device which embodies two pivoted sections, each having a convexly rounded inner side edge and a straight transverse inner end edge, while one section has a straight outer side edge at obtuse angles to its transverse inner end edge and a tapered outer end, and the other section has a straight outer side edge at acute angles to its straight transverse inner end edge and a tapered outer end, with calibrations or index markings along the outer side edge of said other section cooperating with the transverse inner end edge of the one section for indicating the degree of relative adjustment of the sections in raising a shoulder portion of a garment.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear from the accompanying drawing, the subjoined detail description, and the appended claim.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a coat partly broken away to show the adjustable shoulder pad for lifting or raising the shoulder portion of a garment, and sewed between the outer cloth and the linin of the garment.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the construction shown in Figure 1, and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the adjusting device forming part of the adjustable shoulder pad shown in Figure 1.

Referring to the drawing in detail, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, 5 designates a garment coat, 6a shoulder portion of the coat, I a sleeve of the coat, and 8 a sleeve of a shirt worn under the coat. The present shoulder pad is disposed between the outer cloth 9 and inner lining ID of the coat whose shoulder seam is indicated at H. The shoulder pad includes inner and outer layers I2 and I3 of canvas between which is dis- 1 Claim. (01. 2-268) osed 2. padding M of cotton wadding or the like and an inner flannel layer l6, as is common in the tailorin art, especially in mens coats. The shoulder pad adjusting device I5 of the present invention is disposed between the padding I 4 and the flannel layer I6, and the several parts are suitably stitched together as at l1.

The adjusting device l5 comprise two pivoted sections including a front section I8 and a rear or back section l9. Each of the sections l8 and I9 has a convexly rounded inner side edge 20 and a straight inner transverse edge 2|, while the rear or back section l9 has a straight outer side edge 22 at obtuse angles to its transverse edge 2| and a tapered outer end 23. The sections l8 and I9 are substantially triangular in shape. The front section 8 has similar edges 2|] and 2| and a substantially straight outer side edge 24 at acute angles to its straight edge 2|, and has a tapered outer end 25 like the end 23. The edge 4 adjacent the edge 2| of section I8 is provided with graduations 26 cooperating with the.edge 2| of the section 9. To permit this, the sections l8 and I9 are pivotally connected at their inner corners as indicated at 21 by a tubular rivet or the like so that one section swings relative to the other in overlapping relation at segments thereof as at 28 at their transverse edges 2| with their edges 22 and 24 in alignment when the device is arched as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, to raise the shoulder portion of the coat, or to lower the same. The sections l8 and I9 are produced or blanked out of flexible plastic, fibre, cardboard, or similar flexible sheet material which is relatively hard but sufliciently stiff to give support to the shoulder portion 6 of the coat and its padding, when stitched thereto. By this means, the shoulder portion of the garment may be adjusted, to give better form and for overcoming deformities as sloping or lopsided shoulders.

When the sections l8 and I9 have been relatively adjusted as desired, they are stitched to the other members of the pad to secure them in adjusted relation.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

The combination with a coat having a shoulder pad, of an adjustment device to lift the shoulder comprising flexible sheet sections of substantially triangular form having rounded inner side 2,502,505 Y 3 4 edges, and substantially straight transverse inner REFERENCES CITED end and outer side edges the inner comers of The following references are of record in the said sections being pivotally connected whereby me of this patent, said sections may be adjusted in overlapping relation and arched upwardly to raise a shoulder 5 UNITED STATES PATENTS and its pad when secured thereto around the Number Name Date edges of the sections, and means at the inner 314,395 Raphael Mar. 6, 1906 portions of the sections to indicate the degree of 2,274,261 Vogel Feb. 24, 1942 raise imparted to the sections and shoulder. 2,420,533 Breslow May 13, 1947 MAX B 10 W FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 30,045 Austria Sept. 25, 1907 

